Your kids are far more likely to be abducted and molrsted by someone they know and even far more likely to die on a car accident. Ever since we stopped letting kids walk to school for fear of abductions, more kids have died in car accidents on the way there than have been abducted.

The 80s were the most violent decade snd violent crime has decreased dramatically ever since. DNA evidence makes kidnapping less appealing and they are now solving 50 year old cold cases. There is survellience everywhere and with anazon ring the police can log into the camera and see if a crime was committed, and those can see out into the streets. In the next few years we’ll have police drones flying in the sky.

And don’t be so sure you can protect them from a predator. If someone pointed a gun at one and told you to get into the car would you do it? And incels are starting to attack kids with their mothers at malls as a way to get back at women who rejected them.

Exactly – “Free Range Kid” is a new term for something that used to be considered part of a normal childhood and parenting. 😉

That said, I don’t ‘helicopter parent’ either. When I know we’re in a safe place, I let them run free and don’t hover or overreact when something happens.